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18 September 1998
An Easter Rising C.B.E. group of three awarded to Colonel R. L. Owens, Royal Irish Regiment The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge, inscribed on the reverse ‘Col. R. L. Owens, Royal Irish Regiment, June 1919’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (Capt., Imp. Yeo.); British War Medal (Bt. Col.) together with companion set of miniatures, these mounted as worn, enamel chipped on all...
Hammer Price: £850
An important Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General H. R. Cumming, late Durham Light Infantry, killed in a Sinn Fein ambush during the Anglo-Irish War whilst Commanding the Kerry Brigade Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., Durham Lt. Infy.); 1914-15 Star (Major); British War and Victory Medals (Brig. Gen.); France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast...
Hammer Price: £2,100
An Easter Rising M.B.E. group of four awarded to Major R. H. St C. C. Robinson, 5th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., Rl. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) good very fine (4) £200-250
Hammer Price: £1,650
A Great War ‘Palestine’ M.C. group of ten awarded to Air Commodore J. D. Leahy, Medical Branch, Royal Air Force, late Royal Irish Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. J. D. Leahy, 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers, Kefr-Harris, Palestine 20th Sept. 1918’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R. Ir. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (F/L., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, with oak...
A superb Great War and Anglo-Irish War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Brigadier-General George Adamson, Irish Free State Army, late Private in the Machine Gun Corps and Leinster Regiment, murdered in Athlone in April 1922 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48507 Pte.-A.L. Cpl. G. Adamson, 10/M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star Trio (4941 Pte., Leins. R.); Irish General Service ‘Black & Tan’ Medal 1917-21, with Comrac bar and top suspension bar, reverse named ‘524 George Adamson’, good very...
Hammer Price: £2,400
A rare M.G.S. ‘Egypt’ pair awarded to Captain Frederick Hill, 18th Foot, one of only three officers to receive the M.G.S. Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (Fredk. Hill, Capt. 18th Foot); Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt 1801, 36 mm, fitted with original hook and chain but old repair to suspension and damage to hook, the first with edge bruises, otherwise better than good fine (2) £900-1200
Hammer Price: £1,800
A Fenian Raid pair awarded to Sergeant Samuel Johns, Rifle Brigade and Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870 (902 Sgt., 1/R.B.) engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1025 O.R.C., D of Corn. L.I.) toned, nearly extremely fine (2) £250-300
Hammer Price: £340
A group of three awarded to Lieutenant H. Kibler, 5th Lancers, serving as Riding Master of the 6th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry during the Easter Rising 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (4609 Corpl., 5th Lancers); British War Medal (Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (4609 Sq.S.Mjr.R.R., 5/Lrs.) contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £580
The Great War pair awarded to Lieutenant C. E. Adams, Royal Fusiliers, late Sergeant in the Devon Regiment, wounded four times and awarded the D.C.M., and killed in the train ambush at Headford Junction, Co. Kerry, Ireland, in March 1921 British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. C. E. Adams) extremely fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £140
A group of three awarded to Nursing Sister E. Widlake, B.R.C.S. British War and Victory Medals (E. Widlake); Hospital Notre Dame des Grieves, small medal in silver and enamels, the reverse inscribed (Sister E. Widlake, Reconnaissance Guerre 1914-1916) hallmarked Birmingham 1915, good very fine (3) £30-40
Hammer Price: £65
British War and Victory Medal Pairs (2), (Per. A. Persson; G.G. Renard); together with 1939-45 Star (2), Pacific Star and War Medal, these all unnamed as issued, good very fine (6) £40-60
Hammer Price: £85
A rare group to the Tormey family including medals to Commandant James Tormey and his brother Joseph, both of whom were killed during the Anglo-Irish War in 1921 Irish General Service ‘Black & Tan’ Medal 1917-21, with Comrac bar and top suspension bar, reverse named ‘James Tormey No. 1002’ Irish General Service ‘Black & Tan’ Medal 1917-21, with Comrac bar and top suspension bar, reverse named ‘Joseph Tormey No. 1003’ Defence Forces Service Medal, with additional...
Hammer Price: £680
Emergency Service Medal 1939-46, Air Raid Precautions Organization, with related award certificate (Alma G. Fitt) good very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £45
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Rev. C. H. Hutt, P.C. Dept.) nearly extremely fine and very rare £200-300
Hammer Price: £260
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (L. Wroughton, Esq.) nearly extremely fine and rare £100-150
Hammer Price: £170
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. D. P. Barry, “Christchurch Weekly Press”) nearly extremely fine and a rare War Correspondent £600-800
Hammer Price: £750
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (692 Pte. H. S. Macgregor, Thorneycroft’s M.I.) nearly extremely fine and rare £350-400
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Mr. A. Pearce, A.S.R.) toned, nearly extremely fine and very rare £200-300
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Belfast (6469 Pte. T. Connors, 1st Rl. Irish Regt.) nearly extremely fine £100-120
Hammer Price: £180
The important C.B. group of four awarded to Sir William Thomson, Honorary Surgeon to the King in Ireland, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Chief Surgeon in charge of Lord Iveagh’s Irish Hospital in South Africa The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Civil) breast badge in 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1877, complete with gold ribbon buckle; Jubilee 1897, silver (From the Queen to Sir Wm. Thomson, President R.C.S.I. 1897); Coronation 1902; Queen’s...
Hammer Price: £1,500
The Zulu War and Boer War pair awarded to Colonel F. W. Nixon, Senior Military Member of the Irish Hospital, late Royal Engineers South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Capt., R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Colonel, Irish Hosp.) nearly extremely fine (2) £500-600
Hammer Price: £650
The group of five awarded to Major D. S. B. Thomson, Royal Army Medical Corps and Sudan Political Service, who previously served under his father Sir William Thomson, with the Irish Hospital in South Africa Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Drsr., Irish Hospital); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th class, silver and enamels, by Lattes, the...
Hammer Price: £360
The group of four awarded to Private J. Daly, Irish Guards, Police Sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary and a Steward with the Irish Hospital in South Africa Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Stwd., Irish Hospital); British War and Victory Medals (10137 Pte., Ir.Gds.); Visit to Ireland 1903 (C., R.I.C.) lacking Shamrock top suspension, generally polished, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £200-250
A scarce Boer War pair awarded to Nursing Sister H. J. Henderson, Irish Hospital Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nurs. Sis., Irish Hospital); King’s South Africa, no clasp (Nursing Sister) good very fine (2) £250-300
Hammer Price: £460
The Boer war pair awarded to Corporal J. Sheehan, Imperial Yeomanry, formerly an Orderly with the Irish Hospital Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Orderly, Irish Hospital); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (33206 Cpl., Imp. Yeo.) contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (2) £150-200
Hammer Price: £230
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Dvr. P. J. Murphy, Irish Hospital) toned, nearly extremely fine £140-180
Hammer Price: £160
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Drsr. P. Stewart, Irish Hospital) some fire damage and repair to suspension, otherwise nearly very fine £80-100
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Dvr. G. Byrne, Irish Hospital) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £140-180
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Dvr. T. Moore, Irish Hospital) nearly extremely fine £140-180
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Dvr. T. Nolan, Irish Hospital) nearly extremely fine £140-180
Hammer Price: £200
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Clerk T. W. Harris, Irish Hospital) good very fine £140-180
Hammer Price: £240
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Servt. W. Wisking, Irish Hospital) attempted erasure of ‘Servt.’, otherwise very fine £120-140
Hammer Price: £130
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, silver medal, G.IV.R. (Margaret Llewellyn, Voted 29 Apr. 1847) nearly very fine and very rare £350-450
Hammer Price: £550
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, coloured Certificate of Service, illustrated by L. W. Wyllie, to certify that ‘Thomas Cribben was Second Coxwain for 12 years and previously a member of the crew of the North Deal Life-boats for 32 years, during which periods the Life-boats rescued 578 lives from Shipwreck. September 1932’, together with an original photograph of Cribben seated on a fishing boat mending nets with three boys seated around, good condition £30-40
Royal Humane Society, Parchment Testimonial Certificate ‘To J. B. Thornton, for having on the 1st September 1917 gone to the rescue of a woman who was in imminent danger of drowning in the sea at Eastbourne and whose life he gallantly saved’; together with Royal Life Saving Society, Intermediate Certificate awarded to ‘Adrian F. Stoop, Rugby School, July 1937’, good condition (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, Silver, 1st type, 54 mm, frosted finish, framed and glazed, the silver rim inscribed (Presented to Mr. Jas. Tweedie, Master of the Gilbert Henderson, for Jumping overboard & saving a Child from Drowning in the Southern Ocean, April, 1840) the silver rim bruised and possibly repaired, otherwise the medal nearly extremely fine £200-250
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, Silver, 3rd type (To George Watson, for Gallant Service, 27th June 1923) in case of issue but lacking ribbon buckle, edge bruises, otherwise very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £90
Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, silver (2), 1st type (John Gibson) complete with ‘Gallantry’ top suspension bar; 2nd type (Hugh Kennedy) with silver ribbon bar but lacking top suspension, the first with some bad edge nicks, generally very fine (2) £150-200
Hammer Price: £350
Carnegie Hero Fund Medal, bronze, 90 mm, ‘For Heroic Endeavour to Save Human Life’ (James Ferns, Glasgow, 13th November 1934) in its fitted presentation case, good very fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £370
Carnegie Hero Fund Trust, Honorary Certificate ‘Presented by the Trustees to Kimberley F. Noakes, Egham, Surrey, in Recognition of Heroic Endeavour to Save Human Life on 18th December 1946’, approx 400x300 mm, good condition £40-80
Hammer Price: £50
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